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Welcome back to the Richmond Read-along! Today we are reading a poem by Jessie Redmon Fauset, an influential literary figure in the 1920s and 30s. Having graduated from Cornell University…
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Welcome back to the Richmond Read-along! Today is the 221st anniversary of Honoré de Balzac's birth, so we are reading one of his short stories. Balzac revolutionised the novel, with…
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Welcome back to the Richmond Read-along! Today we are reading a poem from T. S. Eliot. A widely respected poet and critic, Eliot is regarded as almost single-handedly changing the…
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Welcome back to the Richmond Read-along! Today we are reading a short story from Franz Kafka. Kafka wrote everything from fragments a few sentences long to his deliberately unfinished novels,…
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Welcome back to the Richmond Read-along! Today we are reading a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke. Born in 1875, Rilke was sent to military school - a miserable place for…
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Welcome back to the Richmond Read-along! Today's piece is a short story from George Gissing. A writer with a complicated life, Gissing is viewed by some to be one of…
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Welcome back to the Richmond Read-along! Today is the anniversary of the death of Emily Dickinson, so we are reading one of her poems. A hugely influential figure in American…
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Welcome back to the Richmond Read-along! Today we are reading a story by Edith Wharton. Born in to a wealthy New York family, Wharton wrote insightful and often critical prose…
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Welcome back to the Richmond Read-along! Today's poem is a song by John Dowland. Dowland was a composer, lutenist and poet during a time when England was producing many poets…
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Welcome back to the Richmond Read-along! Today's short story comes from Rabindranath Tagore, born in Calcutta in 1861. He was a proponent for using colloquial language in literature, and his…